{"id":41671,"date":"2018-12-14T21:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T02:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41671"},"modified":"2018-12-14T21:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T02:25:02","slug":"neofeudalism-isnt-a-flaw-of-the-system-its-the-system-working-perfectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41671","title":{"rendered":"Neofeudalism Isn’t a Flaw of the System–It’s the System Working Perfectly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neofeudalism Isn’t a Flaw of the System–It’s the System Working Perfectly<\/a><\/h3>\n

Fakery is always precarious: the truth about the asymmetries of power might slip out and spread like wildfire.<\/i><\/p>\n

I’ve been writing about neofeudalism and its cousin neocolonialism for seven years:<\/b><\/p>\n

500 Million Debt-Serfs: The European Union Is a Neo-Feudal Kleptocracy<\/a> (July 22, 2011)<\/p>\n

The E.U., Neofeudalism and the Neocolonial-Financialization Model<\/a> (May 24, 2012)<\/p>\n

The basic idea here is the socio-economic-political system is structured such that the only possible output is neofeudalism.<\/b> In other words, neofeudalism isn’t a flaw in the system that can be changed with policy tweaks or electing a new president or PM– it’s the result of the system working as designed.<\/i><\/p>\n

Neofeudalism is a peculiarly invisible hierarchical structure of power:<\/b> The New Nobility (or aristocracy if you prefer) wields vast concentrations of political, social and financial power, and does so without the formalized aristocrat-serf relationships and obligations of classic neofeudalism.<\/p>\n

We appear to be free but we’re powerless to change the power asymmetry between the New Nobility and the commoners.<\/b> This reality is reified into social relations that are simulacra of actual power, pantomimes acted out in media-theaters to instill the belief that the foundational myths of democracy and social mobility are real rather than misleading shadows.<\/p>\n

Neofeudalism is fundamentally a financial-political arrangement, marketed and managed by cultural elites who strive to convince us that we still have some shreds of power.<\/b> These elites have a variety of tools at their disposal. One has been described by filmmaker Adam Curtis as pantomime: Trump says\/does something outrageous, the Democrats cry “impeachment,” and so on.<\/p>\n

This theater of pantomime<\/i> serves two purposes:<\/b> it projects a simulation of functional democracy that makes us believe impeaching one president and getting another one in office will change anything about the neofeudal power structure; it won’t.<\/p>\n

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Neofeudalism Isn’t a Flaw of the System–It’s the System Working Perfectly Fakery is always precarious: the truth about the asymmetries of power might slip out and spread like wildfire. I’ve been writing about neofeudalism and its cousin neocolonialism for seven years: 500 Million Debt-Serfs: The European Union Is a Neo-Feudal Kleptocracy (July 22, 2011) The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[127,9692,3643,7081,7082,587,643],"class_list":["post-41671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-commoners","tag-neocolonialism","tag-neofeudalism","tag-new-nobility","tag-of-two-minds","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41672,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41671\/revisions\/41672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}